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After Fernand Leger, "Jaune No. 9"
After Fernand Leger, "Jaune No. 9"
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Description
Private New York Collection

*After Fernand Léger (French, 1881-1955)
Jaune No. 9 , c. 1960
hand-knotted wool tapestry
Stiched “F. Leger” and “3/10” on reverse
Edition 3 of 10
91 3⁄4 x 43 7/8 inches

$2,000 – 4,000

PROVENANCE
Collection of Robert and Andrea Bollt, New York;
Property from the Estate of Andrea Bollt, Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers, 7 December2013, lot 295:
Private New York Collection.

LITERATURE
Art et Décoration,(January-June 1928, vol. LIII, p. 7) another example illustrated in a photograph taken at the Salon des Artistes Decorateures, circa 1928.
M. Constantine, Contemporary French Tapestries, exhibition cat. (New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1965), 28. Another example illustrated.
J. Sirat et F. Siriex, Tapis français du XXe siècle, de l’Art Nouveau aux créations contemporaines (Paris: Editions de l’Amateur, 1993), 93. Another example illustrated.S.B. Sherrill, Tapis d’Occident du Moyen Age à nos jours (New York: Editions Abbeville, 1995), 369. A variation on red ground illustrated.
D. Paulvé, Marie Cuttoli, Myrbor et l’invention de la tapisserie moderne (Paris: Norma, 2010), 68, 80. Another example illustrated in color and a second example on red ground illustrated in a photograph of the entrance to the apartment of Marie Cuttoli taken circa 1947.

Andrea Bollt
February 19, 1933 – October 24, 2010

Andrea was ravishing and irrepressible. She was practical too, preferring walking to taking a taxi, and with her husband, Robert, would buy a work by Franz Kline or Philip Guston rather than an expensive dress. She and her husband cultivated friendships with contemporary artists in the 1950s and 60s in New York. With great foresight and a sense of adventure, the couple bought iconic works from Alexander Calder, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Joan Miro, Philip Guston, Josef Albers and Jacques Lipchitz. Robert and Andrea became close friends with many of the artists. She owned over 10 works that Robert and she purchased from Franz Kline. They purchased the drawings Kline (lot 11) as Andrea recalled during my many visits, from the artist in the late 1950’s.

Andrea gave lively dinner parties at their chic apartment on the upper east side. I recall many evenings when we enjoyed Franz Kline’s favorite dish “Kline meatloaf.” She would enthrall guests with dramatic and intoxicating stories about the paintings, drawings and the major Calder mobiles which filled the apartment.

I recall several evenings when Andrea, with great flair, unrolled the three tapestries designed after Leger (lots 12-13) and Miró (Lot 14) from a cabinet filled with sculptures by Miró, standing mobiles by Calder and African art. She had purchased them in 1960 on an art-buying trip with Robert to Europe.

In 1961, she and Robert attended a party thrown by Yves Klein and watched him create one of the famous Ant paintings. She acquired the painting at that time. It sold at auction at Sotheby’s in November, 2012 for $4,338,500. She and Robert had an unerring eye for quality and could evaluate the importance of a work of art with great foresight.

Art was her passion, the daily currency of her life, her social milieu, and now, the legacy she leaves behind. In 2012 the Estate of Mrs. Andrea Bollt donated eight important works of modern art from her collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including paintings by Willem de Kooning, a seminal 1939 mobile, “Black Cloud” by Alexander Calder and also an 80 7/8 by 150 inch canvas painted in 1961. Robert and she acquired the painting, as Andrea recalled, one evening after an impromptu call from Kline to drop by for a drink at his place on the upper west side of Manhattan. The timing was such that Kline was looking to raise some cash. According to Andrea, they drove home with the painting strapped to the roof of their car. This monumental work is the undoubtedly one of the most important examples of abstract expressionism in the museum’s collection and perhaps in the artist’s oeuvre”

-Leigh Keno, November 2012
Condition
Some red staining above abstract black motif with circles (see photos). Some yellow staining on white rectangle motif near yellow circle (see photos).
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After Fernand Leger, "Jaune No. 9"

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